Haruka turned 14 years old today, 9月26日 -Hope Haruka had a great day with her family and friends, and may the coming year bring her much happiness and love!!

You may remember her appearance earlier this year on AKBingo, and on the show it was revealed that her father was a formerprofessional baseball player (Kenichi Wakatabe). It was a funny appearance,because they kept asking Asuka Kuramochi about her pro baseball dad,(Akira Kuramochi), and then compared his career to Haruka's dad's career.Haruka's dad basically had much better statistics than Mocchi's pops, butMocchi was a good sport about it, and Haruka got some nice TV time.

And a chance to hear Haruka speak. (With thanks to YouTuber LOVEHKT48)若田部遥 Wakatabe Haruka on the left兒玉遥 Kodama Haruka in the center, and 下野由貴 Shimono Yuki on the right.

They don't get that much focus due to the sheer number of people that were there overall, but Wakachan & WakaPapa were on this week's episode of the Quiz 30 show, which featured guests who were all "parent + child". They get a couple of close-up shots, and can be seen in the upper-left corner of the "bleachers".

Haruka chan and Wakatabe Papa (Kenichi)work the commentary together as this must be the world'sgreatest idol/ idol papa sports team in broadcast history...(Note: quite a bit of baseball before Haruka shows up)